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Dwayne Johnson has kept himself pretty busy over the last day. After making an appearance on The Pat McAfee Show in Boulder on Friday afternoon, Johnson appeared in his old stomping grounds on Friday night, as he joined McAfee and dropped a People’s Elbow on Austin Theory on WWE SmackDown.

Perhaps unsurprisingly, this wasn’t the last time that The Rock made his presence felt in Colorado this weekend. The College GameDay crew is in Boulder ahead of the Colorado Buffaloes’ game against Colorado State, and prior to the game, Deion Sanders went on set to talk about the Buffs’ 2-0 start to the season. During his time on set, The Rock’s entrance theme hit, which led to Johnson joining Rece Davis, Kirk Herbstreit, Desmond Howard, McAfee, and Sanders.

Sanders was especially excited to have Johnson come on set, perhaps because he knew that The Rock would cut a promo about why he’s doing something special in the world of college football.

“What Deion is doing right now — let’s talk about this just for a second, because we are witnessing something that is not only game-changing in the face of college football, but also, something that’s very special,” Johnson said. “And what that special thing is, is passion mixed with love mixed with disruption mixed with swagger mixed with confidence, but also, there’s an undercurrent here that Coach Prime is doing, is he’s changing the face of college football, and he’s doing it his way. But he’s also doing it in a way — and this is the hard part — that is galvanizing not only a town in Boulder, Colorado, but also galvanizing an entire country.”

After admitting that The Rock nearly made him cry, Coach Prime did what any good college football coach would do in this situation: used it as a recruiting pitch.

“All recruits, did you hear what he said?” Sanders said while the rest of the desk laughed. “We ain’t hard to find.”

Jenna Ellis may have had the cheeriest mugshot of the 19 defendants in Trump’s Georgia case, but in some way she’s the least happy of the lot. The former president’s former lawyer — who’s already had to endure Rudy Giuliani farts — was none-too-happy that he wouldn’t help her out with her mounting legal bills. And in a recent interview she went farther.

“I simply can’t support him for elected office again,” Ellis vented during an episode of her show American Family Radio, as caught by The Daily Beast. “Why I have chosen to distance is because of that frankly malignant narcissistic tendency to simply say that he’s never done anything wrong.”

After being indicted, Ellis tried to “live laugh love” her way through the indignity of being charged with racketeering and soliciting the violation of an oath by a public officer. Since then, it’s been reported that she was on the “tipping point” of turning on her former client, as previous Trump lawyers have done in the past. Ellis dismissed those rumors, though, saying that anything “genuine happening with me in the Georgia matter will come directly from me or my lawyers.”

In the meantime, Trump is still out there making gloomy speeches about what will happen if he, a guy who accused of helping foment a failed coup, doesn’t return to the White House. In a Friday address, he accused “cognitively impaired” Joe Biden of leading us into “World War II.”

(Via The Daily Beast)

Travis Scott‘s fourth studio album Utopia has proven to be one of the most acclaimed albums of the year. And for the first time in three years, Scott will be returning to the road for a tour in support of the album.

While many fans are excited to see Scott on his upcoming Utopia: Circus Maximus Tour, the idea of a Scott production is giving many people pause, due to the Astroworld disaster of 2021. With the upcoming tour comes several questions.

Are Travis Scott and Live Nation doing a tour?

Live Nation is, in fact, sponsoring the Utopia: Circus Maximus Tour. Live Nation/Ticketmaster is the largest entertainment company in the world, and thus, one of very few event production companies able to handle a fanbase as big as Scott’s.

Still, many fans are worried about the idea of a potential repeat of the Astroworld catastrophe, which resulted in eight deaths and several injuries. Following Scott’s 2021 Astroworld festival in Houston, several attendees and their families filed lawsuits against Live Nation, with one plaintiff notably suing for $1 million in damages.

Live Nation has not indicated what measures they will take in order to avoid an Astroworld repeat, however, Houston is noticeably absent from the Utopia tour stops.

One of Donald Trump’s favorite attacks on Joe Biden is that, unlike him, he’s in cognitive decline. After all, Trump’s the guy who passed a “difficult” mental acuity test before he lost re-election. But is it possible the guy who can’t spell “rumor” or “hamburgers” is projecting? Based on a speech he delivered Friday, it sure seems that way.

In a gaffe-strewn address at the D.C. Pray Vote Summit, Trump unloaded on his likely 2024 contender. “We have a man who is totally corrupt and the worst president in the history of our country, who is cognitively impaired, in no condition to lead, and is now in charge of dealing with Russia and possible nuclear war,” he railed.

“Just think of it. We would be in World War II very quickly if we’re going to be relying on this man, and far more devastating than any war,” he said.

Trump didn’t’ catch that he forgot about the other second World War, in a slip of the tongue that has strong Animal House vibes. Instead he amped up his gloomy predictions, saying, “There will never be a war if that happens— there will never be a war like this. It will obliterate everything there is, everybody, it will obliterate every country.”

There were other whoppers in his speech, too. At one point he accidentally said that polls have him crushing his presidential predecessor Barack Obama, which he caught, then tried to incoherently spin.

Meanwhile, the guy who’s supposedly in cognitive decline knows how to zing Trump in just a few words.

(Via Mediaite)

Lauren Boebert is a land of contrasts. On one hand she can baselessly accuse the LGBTQIA+ community of “grooming” children and exposing them to sex acts. On the other she’ll go to an all-ages musical and get handsy with her date. The MAGA lawmaker has seen a lot of blowback since news spread of her antics at a regional production of Beetlejuice on Sunday. Initially she denied vaping during the show, which security video taken that night later disproved. But now there’s proof that she did even more than that.

As per The New York Post, new video shows Boebert not only vaping during the stage musical take on the Tim Burton favorite, but also getting felt up by her date. She returns the favor, groping his crotch amidst an audience of family members.

Boebert’s date was later identified as a Democrat bar owner who’s hosted drag queen shows — the kind of event that’s been brazenly demonized by folks like the Colorado representative.

As the scandal spread, Boebert issued a carefully worded apology blaming her antics on her continuing divorce from a guy who once exposed his genitals in a bowling alley.

Many pointed out that crusading against people allegedly exposing kids to sex while getting frisky in front of kids might be a pretty solid example of hypocrisy.

(Via NY Post)

Saturday is a special day in the world of college football. ESPN’s long-running pregame show, College GameDay, is in Boulder for the matchup between the Colorado Buffaloes and the Colorado State Rams, and at the end of this edition of the program, GameDay institution Lee Corso will throw on headgear and make a pick, a tradition that has gone on since 1996.

This will mark the 400th time that the 88-year-old football coach-turned-broadcaster will end the show with a headgear pick, and to celebrate the occasion, the fine folks at GameDay decided to call up a friend and have him do something special. In a pre-recorded video, USC fan and former GameDay guest picker Will Ferrell congratulated Corso on the milestone before busting out some headgear of his own: the helmet that Ricky Bobby wore in the movie Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby.

It’s both very cool that Ferrell was part of this celebration of Corso and unsurprising that he decided to have some fun with the assignment. We’ll have to wait and see if they have him do another one of these with a different bit of headgear, like that little hat that Buddy the Elf wore in Elf or the hat that he wore during the Gator scene in The Other Guys.

Lauren Boebert is a land of contrasts. On one hand she can baselessly accuse the LGBTQIA+ community of “grooming” children and exposing them to sex acts. On the other she’ll go to an all-ages musical and get handsy with her date. The MAGA lawmaker has seen a lot of blowback since news spread of her antics at a regional production of Beetlejuice on Sunday. Initially she denied vaping during the show, which security video taken that night later disproved. But now there’s proof that she did even more than that.

As per The New York Post, new video shows Boebert not only vaping during the stage musical take on the Tim Burton favorite, but also getting felt up by her date. She returns the favor, groping his crotch amidst an audience of family members.

Boebert’s date was later identified as a Democrat bar owner who’s hosted drag queen shows — the kind of event that’s been brazenly demonized by folks like the Colorado representative.

As the scandal spread, Boebert issued a carefully worded apology blaming her antics on her continuing divorce from a guy who once exposed his genitals in a bowling alley.

Many pointed out that crusading against people allegedly exposing kids to sex while getting frisky in front of kids might be a pretty solid example of hypocrisy.

(Via NY Post)

Drake‘s It’s All A Blur tour with 21 Savage has proven to be one of the buzziest tours of the year. From collecting bras and undergarments onstage, to offering to fly fans back home first class, the It’s All A Blur tour has been making headlines all summer. Over the course of the tour, Drake has been teasing his upcoming album, For All The Dogs, and finally shared its lead single — “Slime You Out” with SZA — yesterday (September 15).

But last night, following the second Dallas show, Drake took to his Instagram story to reveal that For All The Dogs will be arriving later than its originally planned September 22 release date.

“Okay my dilemma I’m faced with is I either cancel shows to finish the album, or I complete the mission and drop the album before the last show,” he said. “I owe you all these memories we are building and anywhere we have missed to date, we will be spinning back for sure.”

Thankfully, we won’t have to wait too much longer. In the story, Drake revealed For All The Dogs‘ new October release date.

“Its only right…,” he said.

For All The Dogs is out 10/6 via OVO and Republic. Find more information here.

In recent years, First Take has moved away from two main debate partners and towards Stephen A. Smith going back-and-forth with a rotating cast of characters. Before that, the show featured Smith and Max Kellerman going head-to-head, but back in 2021, Kellerman was moved off the show and into other capacities on the network before he was let go earlier this year.

Smith has made clear in the past that he wanted Kellerman off the show, expressing his belief that something needed to change with First Take. But on the most recent episode of The Joe Budden Podcast, Smith took things a step further in explaining why the breakup happened.

“I heard some of it, I would take full responsibility for that,” Smith said after he was asked about people noticing tension between the two prior to Kellerman leaving the show at the 2:15:09 mark of the above video. “That’s totally my fault, and the reason it was my fault is because I didn’t like working with him, man. It’s just that damn simple. I didn’t like it. I thought the show was stale. I thought that we had flatlined when it came to the public at large.”

As Smith explained, he’s long been concerned that the show could fall from No. 1 in the ratings after Skip Bayless’ departure, and “that sh*t was not gonna happen.” And while he made clear that the ratings weren’t falling off enough at the time, he felt like something was just off.

“To me, it did, not just creatively, but just the consistency of the numbers,” he said. “In other words, it wasn’t going [up], it was just [flat]. And not only that, it’s like us being in this room right now. Come on, y’all, you know the difference between something that’s stale and something that you’re pumped up for.”

Smith was quick to express that he has plenty of respect for Kellerman, but despite that, he thought the fact that Kellerman’s background didn’t include an athlete or a journalist “left people wondering why should we listen to you.”

Twice have made some serious waves as a popular K-Pop girl group. Earlier this year, they dropped their twelfth EP, titled Ready To Be, and headed out on a North American tour. In total, Twice has nine girls that all play important roles in the band.

For those looking for an introduction to the band, here’s what to know about who the Twice members are.

Nayeon serves as a lead dancer and singer. She is from Seoul and is the oldest member. Last summer, she dropped a solo EP titled I’m Nayeon.

Momo is from Kyoto, Japan, and is a main dancer. She is also a sub vocalist and rapper, according to KProfiles. She was also reportedly scouted after the management company saw a video of her and her sister performing.

Sana is another sub vocalist of Twice. She is an only child and succeeded at her audition for the band in April 2012.

Adding to the sub vocalist is Mina, who is also a main dancer. She reportedly joined the trainee program in 2014, according to the website.

Dahyun is a lead rapper and sub vocalist. Her favorite number is 7 because she is the seventh oldest out of the band.

Jeongyeon is a lead vocalist and has two older sisters. Her father is also a popular Korean chef.

Chaeyoung is a main rapper and a sub vocalist. Her favorite color is red and she’s also reportedly close with Blackpink’s Rosé.

Tzuyu is a lead dancer and sub vocalist. She is also the tallest member of the band, and her favorite color is blue.

Finally, but certainly not least, Jihyo is a main vocalist and the leader of Twice. She also had her solo debut this summer with the mini-album, Zone.